"Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like."

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Source : Lionel Trilling (2012). “The Liberal Imagination”, p.100, New York Review of Books

Lionel Trilling

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“The truth I've discovered is that you don't have to lift enormous weights to grow muscle. By using stricter form, slower negatives, and stretching between sets you can get an incredible pump in all your workouts. Numbers are an abstraction, especially to muscles. Your body doesn't know the absolute weight of what you lift, it only recognizes how heavy it feels. The secret is to make lighter weights feel heavier.”
“When Iâ€™m working 16-hour days and I canâ€™t work out, I get angry very easily. Itâ€™s because Iâ€™m missing all those good endorphins. For me, exercise equals happiness.”
“If Plutarch is the essayist I want to believe he is, he would want us all to sit in his chair.”
“Imagine having "no chain of titles for cars, no VIN numbers, and no DMV. There'd be total chaos! But that's basically the system for debt.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand.”
“To live alone is the fate of all great souls.”
“I couldn't be more thankful to get my start on a soap opera. It was the hardest job I ever had. Got to practice in front of the camera, like, every day.”
“Pessimism is carefully cultivated in some intellectual circles, as if it were a precious plant that the human race could not afford to lose.”

Source : Arthur Lynch (1921). “Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day”

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